Virtual Legal Support for Businesses
Our virtual legal team acts as an extension of your in-house legal team, offering scalable and flexible solutions tailored to your business needs. With access to a full range of specialisms, we provide high-quality legal support, reduce overhead costs, allowing your business to thrive with peace of mind.
Benefits of our virtual legal team for your business
Our virtual legal team offers unparalleled benefits to your business, providing scalability and flexibility to adjust the size of your legal team based on your current needs and workloads. With access to a full range of specialisms, our team maintains a close level of support akin to being in-house, building a deep understanding of your business and its needs. By significantly reducing overhead costs associated with recruitment, training, onboarding, holidays, sickness and national insurance contributions, we allow your business to allocate resources more effectively.
Additionally, our team utilises a wide range of resources, such as software and platforms, reducing the need for your business to procure these resources itself. Partner-led and delivered at group counsel level, our team of virtual lawyers ensure consistent support, providing peace of mind without the need for supervision or management of legal work.
How our virtual lawyers improve business efficiency
The agility of our virtual legal team enables rapid progression and finalisation of contracts, facilitating swift revenue flow for your business. By managing the contract process end-to-end, our proactive and tenacious team not only concludes matters efficiently but also frees up your stakeholders to focus on operational tasks. We provide contract management support to ensure proper entry and management of contracts in line with delegated authorities. With a single point of contact, coordination with multiple people is minimised and cost certainty is achieved with a fixed monthly cost, eliminating unexpected expenses.
Ways our virtual legal team reduces costs for your business
Our virtual legal team removes the lead time associated with recruitment, training, upskilling and onboarding of a legal team. By eliminating costs related to holidays, sickness and national insurance contributions, we allow businesses to allocate resources more effectively.
Your business only pays for productive time spent on legal work, ensuring 100% efficiency. Our team of virtual lawyers support specific projects and business-as-usual needs, reducing the need for additional legal support.
How we support your compliance and risk management
Our virtual legal team manages risk by ensuring consistency across the team and the output delivered to businesses, overseen at partner level. All work aligns with your business’s risk profile and strategy. We analyse, assess and negotiate contracts to ensure certainty of risk and exposure. With an agreed reporting structure and regular review meetings, we ensure our service meets your evolving needs.
Rebecca Howlett
Commercial Partner & Head of Freeths Virtual Legal Team
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About us
Our team is led by Rebecca Howlett, who acts as virtual general counsel for several of our clients, providing strategic advice to identify current and future risks. Rebecca leads a team of experienced commercial lawyers who act as an extension of your in-house team. We are adept at delivering high-level service, advising on business-critical contracts, terms and conditions, data protection policies and developing supply chain documents and processes for clients.
In addition to our core team, we can draw on other members of the wider Freeths team as needed. This means your business has access to a virtual legal team supported by 1,000 colleagues across a full range of specialisms, ensuring we find the right person to assist you with your work.
Cost efficiency
By eliminating overhead costs associated with recruitment, training, onboarding, holidays, sickness and national insurance contributions, businesses can allocate resources more effectively. You only pay for productive time spent on legal work, ensuring 100% efficiency
Scalability & flexibility
Our virtual legal team can adjust the size of your legal team based on your current needs and workloads. This flexibility allows businesses to scale their legal support up or down as required, providing both short-term assistance and long-term day-to-day services
Expertise & specialisation
With access to a full range of specialisms and a team of experienced commercial lawyers, businesses benefit from a depth of knowledge and expertise that is often more expansive than an in-house legal team. This ensures high-quality legal support tailored to your specific needs
Improved efficiency
Our team manages the contract process end-to-end, freeing up your stakeholders to focus on operational tasks. We also provide support in contract management, ensuring proper entry and management of contracts in line with delegated authorities and provide regular reporting and review meetings
Business benefits
- Peace of mind
- Experienced high quality legal support
- 100% efficiency – no unproductive days
- Pay only for time productively spent on legal work
- Help to assess and manage your business risk
- Accessible and friendly team
- Sector driven expertise
- Seamless and consistent support
- Long-term business knowledge
- Monthly reporting on all the matters we work on for you
Tailored legal services by our virtual lawyers
Our virtual legal team adds value to your business by tailoring our services to your specific needs. We flex our team to your business’s changing needs, providing short-term assistance, such as maternity or paternity leave cover, or longer-term day-to-day services.
Our extensive expertise allows us to offer a much more expansive knowledge and specialism base than an in-house legal team. Our virtual lawyers are always there to assist you with urgent matters, flexing our resources around your varying requirements.
Cost-effective virtual legal solutions
Our team provides a cost-effective outsourced legal function, ensuring 100% efficiency and productivity. We work seamlessly with all levels of your business, aiming to make your life easier and reduce your business’s risk and exposure.
Our virtual lawyers assist with reporting to your board, tracking all matters we work on for your business including monthly reports with the current status of each matter. We also offer metrics and graphics to support progress on virtual legal team matters for submission to your board or parent company.
Client testimonials
‘The people are what makes this practice unique. Always taking the time to get to know you and so that they can always advise in the right way.’
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“I definitely made the right decision in partnering with Freeths.”
Dave Evans, CEO of City Plumbing
‘Rebecca Howlett manages the team very well. She is incredibly responsive and dedicated. Offers assistance and makes suggestions for change. Feels...
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In-house lawyers programme
Did you know we also provide tailored legal services and a free subscription-based programme for in-house lawyers? By working closely with you, we tailor our services to meet your company’s day-to-day commercial needs and priorities.
Tailored legal information and events. Our in-house programme is not just unwanted marketing material, event invites and news updates. Everything we do is relevant and designed to make a positive impact on your bottom line. We can help you work more efficiently, reduce your legal spend and free up time to take your business forward.
Meet our team
Rebecca Howlett
Commercial Partner & Head of Freeths Virtual Legal Team
Jaskeerat Sanghera
Managing Associate
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Whatever your legal needs, our wide ranging expertise is here to support you and your business, so let’s start your legal journey today and get you in touch with the right lawyer to get you started.
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